AuthorTopic: wikileaks coup (Read 3451 times)

This kind of thing makes my blood boil. That Central Asian gas that's going to be piped through Afghanistan is AMERICA'S gas. Those minerals in the ground under the dry dusty soil are AMERICA'S minerals. What possesses these barbarians to threaten AMERICA'S economic interests?

We'd better make sure all these planets get labeled "property of AMERICA" before anyone else gets their grubby paws on them. Possibly with massive cattle brands towed into deep space by ion drives. YEEHAW!

On a more serious note, I'm pretty ambivalent to the idea that we will probably be ousted from Afghanistan by some really awful people. It happened to the British Empire and the Soviet Union and in all likelihood it will happen to us too. I know, "But Merca's DIFRINT" but really as far as bloated declining empires go it really isn't. I don't really like those mooselimbs in Afghanistan either but there's some kind of strange irony in the idea of being beaten by backwards religious-right savages that I can't quite put my finger on...

These are documents turned over by the Commerce Department, under a March 5, 2002 court order as a result of Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit concerning the activities of the Cheney Energy Task Force. The documents contain a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts.” The documents are dated March 2001.